The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.

It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise utility. But because. .. useful outcomes are best identified after the making of discoveries, rather than before.

Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.

Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.

Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.